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District tables staggered start times, shifts focus to transportation improvements
Summary
After exploring staggered start times, the district decided to postpone that plan and instead pursue service improvements including QR bus tags, a bus-stop route study and expanded local vehicle licensing to increase capacity.
The Nantucket School Committee was told that plans to consider staggered school start times have been tabled after discussions with district leadership, the Cape Cod Collaborative and union representatives. The district will instead focus on transportation improvements.
"We decided to table the idea of staggering start times and instead focus on improving our transportation services," a staff presenter said during the committee meeting.
Why it matters: Staggered start times can affect families’ schedules, bus routes and staffing; the district said it will prioritize operational steps intended to speed routes and boost capacity without changing school start times.
Planned transportation steps
The presenter outlined a set of measures the district is pursuing: issuing bag tags or bus tags with QR codes for students who ride buses, conducting a routes study to evaluate consolidation of bus stops, increasing local advertising and visibility of the Cape Cod Collaborative’s services, and promoting a 70‑license vehicle option that can transport seven to eight students and is described as easier to license locally. The district also said it is in continuing conversations with a vendor referenced in the presentation as "Nerda" to explore alternative transportation for middle- and high-school students.
No formal vote was taken; instead, the committee accepted the staff’s recommendation to halt work on staggered starts and to return with updates on the transportation measures.
